The non-financial teachers’ problems are becoming an administrative problem in Punjab due to wrong government policies and decentralization is only the solution to the same, said Raj Kishore Kalra, an educationist in his statement to the media persons.

He
said, out of about 22,000 government schools in Punjab, 12925 are
primary school, 3200 middle school, 1742 high school and about 1500
senior secondary schools. In these schools, more than one lakh
teachers of various categories and employees are working. The
government is spending about Rs.2200 crore as administrative expenses
every year in order to provide education to approximately 30 lakh
students.

For
many years, the teachers working in these schools are struggling for
their demands, which include financial and non-financial.

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Focus

So
far as financial demands are concerned, the government is
dilly-dallying, taking the plea of financial constraints but there
are certain non-financial demands, which can be acceded to, without
any burden on government exchequer. Because of wrong policies
of government, the non-financial problems of teachers are becoming
administrative problems.

Kalra
further said, the non-financial demands include transfer of teachers,
time-bound promotion plan, promotions, confirmation cases,
discrimination at the time of appointment of teachers in schools,
non-existence of permanent calendar, issuing of half-baked letters,
non-issuing of financial approval for salary of teachers etc.

In
case the government decentralizes its powers, the non-financial
problems can be solved very easily, said Kalra.